YORKTOWN – The apparent theft of more than $13,000 from his workplace has resulted in a local man's arrest.

Steven Michael Browning, 25, is preliminarily charged with eight counts of fraud. He was being held in the Delaware County jail under a $40,000 bond.

According to an affidavit, the site manager for Capstone Logistic — described on a company website as a "warehouse unloading" firm — reported to Yorktown police on Thursday that Browning had posted false deposits on the firm's website, reflecting money had been placed in accounts when it had not.

The manager said $13,370 in cash was missing, the result of "unmade deposits" from mid-November through last Monday.

Interviewed Thursday, Browning told Yorktown police officer Kris Thornburg he left eight days worth of deposits — including cash and checks — on a desk when "he had to leave the officer to go downstairs."

"Browning stated the office was left open and that when he came back, that cash was missing," Thornburg wrote.

Browning maintained he was unaware of what had happened to the money. He acknowledged falsifying deposits on the company website, saying his supervisor had told him to, a claim that man denied.

Browning — a former Muncie resident who was listed as an Anderson address on the affidavit — does not appear to have faced any charges previously.

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